‘Tis the season to eat pumpkins.  Making your own puree for pie, soups, and baking is a simple and delicious.  Here’s how:

Choose your pumpkin.  Pie pumpkins have the richest flavor but you can do this with any pumpkin if you wish.

Halve your pumpkin.

Remove the innards.  I like to use a grapefruit spoon because the serrated edge [...]